RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

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What am I looking at?

Each circle is a Chicago neighborhood. The number is its report count — click one to zoom in and see individual sightings there.

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Colors are relative to what’s currently on screen, so they adjust as you switch time ranges.

Zoomed into a neighborhood or zip? Same colors group nearby reports, and a bright dot means that exact spot’s been reported more than once.

📰 This week’s rat recap

Weekly Rat Trends — Oct 26–Nov 1, 2026

  • 🐀 1,021 new reports — down 9% from the week before
  • 👑 Lake View is Rat King with 70 reports
  • 📈 Biggest jump: Lincoln Park, up 15 from last week
  • 🏙️ The city took 11.2 days on average to resolve a complaint
Read the full recap →

Why Chicago keeps score on its rats

Chicago has topped national rankings of the rattiest U.S. cities for over a decade running — a reputation the city itself takes seriously enough to run one of the country’s most active 311 rodent-complaint programs. Every baiting request, burrow report, and complaint filed with the city becomes a public record. RatCity turns that record, plus reports from people who live here, into a map you can actually use: is this block bad? Is it getting worse? Which neighborhood is winning (or losing) the fight this month?

What’s actually on the map

Most of the data is Chicago’s own — every “Rodent Baiting/Rat Complaint” filed through 311, pulled in automatically once a day so the map never goes stale. Layered on top are sightings reported directly by visitors, matched to the same neighborhood and zip-code boundaries the city uses, so a resident’s report and an official 311 complaint carry equal weight on the map.

Reading the map

Circles are sized and colored by how many reports a neighborhood has racked up — blue is quiet, red means trouble. The Day / Week / 30 Days / Year toggle up top changes the window, so you can see whether a neighborhood’s rat problem is a one-week blip or a year-long trend. Whoever’s in the lead gets crowned the neighborhood Rat King in the sidebar, a title that changes hands as new reports come in.

Noticed a rat that isn’t on the map yet? Use “Report a sighting” above — it takes under a minute and goes live as soon as it’s reviewed. Curious about where the data actually comes from or how reports are moderated? See the About page for the full breakdown.

Want more? The blog has weekly trend recaps and guides on Chicago’s rat problem and how to keep it out of your home.

Browse every sighting

59,354 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
9/16/2026430 S CLARK STLoop34Completed5 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/16/202611261 S MILLARD AVEMount Greenwood19Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/16/20264806 N PAULINA STUptown47Completed14 daysInternetCity 311
9/16/20263215 W WILSON AVEAlbany Park33Completed15 daysInternetCity 311
9/16/202611257 S MILLARD AVEMount Greenwood19Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/16/20265000 S HOYNE AVENew City15Completed14 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/16/20266937 W DIVERSEY AVEMontclare36Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/16/20267806 W THORNDALE AVENorwood Park41Completed14 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/16/20263932 W 83RD PLAshburn18Completed14 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/16/20266937 W DIVERSEY AVEMontclare36Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/16/20261845 W IOWA STWest Town36Completed12 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/16/20267752 S NORMAL AVEGreater Grand Crossing17Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/16/2026152 N PINE AVEAustin37Completed9 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/16/20263628 W 85TH PLAshburn18Completed14 daysInternetCity 311
9/16/2026939 N ORLEANS STNear North Side27Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/16/2026939 N ORLEANS STNear North Side27Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/16/20264515 N ARTESIANLincoln Square47Completed14 daysSalesforce Mobile AppCity 311
9/16/20267251 S RIDGELAND AVESouth Shore7Completed14 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/16/20261456 W ELMDALE AVEEdgewater48Completed9 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/16/20263644 S DAMEN AVEMcKinley Park12Completed8 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/16/20262635 N DRAKE AVELogan Square35Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
9/16/20266934 S OAKLEY AVEChicago Lawn17Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/16/20265121 N WINCHESTER AVELincoln Square40Completed7 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/16/20261135 W GRACE STLake View44Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
9/16/20265439 W FOSTER AVEJefferson Park45Completed15 daysInternetCity 311
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